Creating Luck In Your Life!

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Good Morning!

 

Creating Luck In Your Life!

 

Luck. What exactly is luck? Is luck being at the right place at the

right time? Finding that lucky penny? Always landing on your feet?

Finding a four leaf clover? Discovering bird droppings on your

shoulder?

 

What ever your idea of luck, research has found that people are

divided. Thanks to the research of Dr. Richard Wiseman in

collaboration with Dr. Matthew Smith and Dr. Peter Harris, The Luck

Project was born. " Conceived to scientifically explore psychological

differences between people who considered themselves exceptionally

lucky and unlucky " , The Luck Project discovered some incredible

results. " The results of this work reveal that people are not born

lucky. Instead, lucky people are, without realizing it, using four

basic principles to create good fortune in their lives " .

 

Principle One: Maximize Chance Opportunities

Lucky people are skilled at creating, noticing and acting upon chance

opportunities. They do this in various ways, including networking,

adopting a relaxed attitude to life and by being open to new

experiences.

 

Principle Two: Listening to Lucky Hunches

Lucky people make effective decisions by listening to their intuition

and gut feelings. In addition, they take steps to actively boost

their intuitive abilities by, for example, meditating and clearing

their mind of other thoughts.

 

Principle Three: Expect Good Fortune

Lucky people are certain that the future is going to be full of good

fortune. These expectations become self-fulfilling prophecies by

helping lucky people persist in the face of failure, and shape their

interactions with others in a positive way.

 

Principle Four: Turn Bad Luck to Good

Lucky people employ various psychological techniques to cope with,

and often even thrive upon, the ill fortune that comes their way. For

example, they spontaneously imagine how things could have been worse,

do not dwell on the ill fortune, and take control of the

situation.Our most recent research has shown that these four

principles can be used to enhance the amount of good fortune that

people experience in their lives " .

 

 

I get hundreds of emails asking about how people can improve their

luck, especially around this time of year! Here are some suggestions

that I have found very affective:

 

 

Seven Lucky Tips

 

1. The expression of confidence is a definite component of luck in a

certain class of situations (especially social, and sometimes dealing

with animals as well). From some perspectives confidence might appear

best classified as a subset of optimism.

 

2. Networking of one form or another, believe it or not, is something

lifeforms (and even inanimate objects!) were doing long before

intelligence sprouted to take credit for it.

 

3. Preparation , practice, and study. The motto of the Boy Scouts

is " be prepared " . This notion, where actually executed prior to a

crisis, can literally mean the difference between life and death. In

less extreme circumstances it can mean the difference between a

comfortable and interesting life, and a mediocre, painful, and boring

one.

 

4. Leveraging the existing social order is often essential to good

fortune. For example, in modern society quite a bit can be

accomplished simply by cooperating with various bureaucracies and

completing the proper paperwork-- while on the flip side, the lack of

such cooperation or papers can bring even the most grandiose of

projects to a standstill.

 

5. Risk-taking can be either voluntary or not, but just as you must

usually pass through a doorway to gain access to a new environment,

you must usually take a risk to find or exploit new opportunities.

Risk accompanies virtually every breath and step we take in this

world. It's a part of living.

 

6. Timing is sort of the metaphysical correlate to the modern maxim

that " location, location, and location " are the three most important

aspects to real estate values. If a person could fully exploit the

timing of events, even just in the daily hum drum circumstances of

their own life, they could in many cases accomplish amazing things.

 

7. Self-discipline. Mastering your own 'flight or fight' response:

remaining cool and collected when those around you aren't, can at

minimum present you with certain unique opportunities for

advancement, and at maximum enable you to save your own life and

those of others.

 

 

 

Andrew Pacholyk, MS , L.Ac.

Peacefulmind.com

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